Etrata's Inevitable End

Commander / EDH Assassin Blink Clone Combo Exile Theme/Gimmick UB (Dimir)

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Land (32)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Choked Estuary
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 8x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Otawara, Soaring City
• 1x River of Tears
• 1x Spire of Industry
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 8x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Isle
• 1x Tolaria West
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Watery Grave

Repeatable bounce/flicker/phasing - Effects on permanents (8)

• 1x Crystal Shard
• 1x Kaito, Dancing Shadow
• 1x Nephalia Smuggler
• 1x Sanctum of Eternity
• 1x Sword of Hearth and Home
• 1x Vanishing
• 1x Vodalian Illusionist
• 1x Voidwalk

Forced Target and extra hit counters (4)

• 1x Kormus Bell
• 1x Mari, the Killing Quill
• 1x Ramses, Assassin Lord
• 1x Ravenloft Adventurer

Smoke bombs (3)

• 1x Dissipation Field
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Silent Arbiter

Trigger Doubler/Copy makers/Win cons (11)

• 1x Blade of Selves
• 1x Cephalid Facetaker
• 1x Glasspool Mimic  ^Flip
• 1x Grafted Exoskeleton
• 1x Irenicus's Vile Duplication
• 1x Kokusho, the Evening Star
• 1x Lithoform Engine
• 1x Mirror Box
• 1x Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
• 1x Spark Double
• 1x Strionic Resonator

One off bounce/flicker/phasing - Isochron Targets (8)

• 1x Curfew
• 1x Essence Flux
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Planar Incision
• 1x Reality Ripple
• 1x Siren's Ruse
• 1x Slip Out the Back
• 1x Teferi's Time Twist

Combo Finders (7)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Scheming Symmetry
• 1x Unfulfilled Desires

Generic Card Draw (4)

• 1x Day's Undoing
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Rhystic Study

Hate Bears (2)

• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Opposition Agent

Commander (1)

Generic Ramp (10)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Jeweled Lotus
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

EtB/Combat Damage triggers (7)

• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Cloud of Faeries
• 1x Gonti, Lord of Luxury
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Quietus Spike
• 1x Thalakos Seer
• 1x Thieving Skydiver

Commander Protection (3)

• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

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Other (16)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Alchemist's Retrieval
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Collective Restraint
• 1x Crashing Drawbridge
• 1x Hall of the Bandit Lord
• 1x March of Swirling Mist
• 1x Memory Deluge
• 1x Midnight Clock
• 1x Netherborn Altar
• 1x Peel from Reality
• 1x Quasiduplicate
• 1x Rescue
• 2x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Sakashima the Impostor

Tutor (3)

• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Solve the Equation
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Smoke bombs (2)

• 1x AEtherize
• 1x Crawlspace

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Etrata phasing, flicker, and bounce. Make copies, double triggers, and win with Etrata attack triggers all while getting value from EtB and LtB creatures.

Opponents have no creatures on board?

It’s ironic, Etrata, the Silencer exiles creatures, but only cares about CARDS in exile with hit counters. Therefore, we just need non-token things to be creatures when her triggered ability goes off for her to do work:

Kormus Bell + Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth All lands are 1/1 creatures and potential targets for Etrata, the Silencer.

Working around Etrata's downside.

This is Etrata’s challenging caveat to her powerful effect, if you don’t remove her from being targeted by her ability on the stack (or Disallow ), you either shuffle her into your deck or have to pay more command tax.

Repeatable effects: bounce Crystal Shard , flicker Deadeye Navigator , and phasing Teferi's Veil

One time effects and Isochron Scepter targets, phasing Slip Out the Back , flicker Essence Flux , and bounce Curfew

Want hit counters faster?

Let's face it, 1 counter per turn, per opponent, just isn't good enough. Here are some ways to pick up the pace and to even hit multiple opponents at once:

Attack trigger doublers: Strionic Resonator and Lithoform Engine (2 hit counters, one opponent)

Double Strike: Fireshrieker (2 hit counters, one opponent)

Clone: Sakashima of a Thousand Faces (Combo piece and 2 hit counters one opponent, or 1 on each of two opponents)

Alternate hit counter generators: Mari, the Killing Quill and Ravenloft Adventurer

2 hit counters on each opponent combo:

With Mirror Box and/or Sakashima of a Thousand Faces on the field, Etrata, the Silencer (Copied version of Etrata using Spark Double does not require Sakashima or Mirror Box) equipped with Blade of Selves attacks. Then, activate Strionic Resonator targeting the Blade of Selves trigger on the stack and boom, each opponent gets hit by 2 Etrata, the Silencer exiling two creatures with hit counters. Use this setup especially when you have at least 1 hit counter card per opponent.

Flicker and Bounce targets.

We might as well be getting value out of all those flicker and bounce effects that we need to run to make Etrata work. Feel free to mix and match your favorites, though keeping card draw ones is probably a good idea.

Draw Baleful Strix , Mulldrifter , etc. (Just value!)

Untap Peregrine Drake (Potential big mana swing, especially if you have multiple effects that flicker)

Kill Shriekmaw (Use sparingly or when you have Mauri/Ravenloft out. As a rule, we would rather have Etrata exile stuff for the hit counters)

Card advantage Gonti, Lord of Luxury (Like card draw, but you also take other people's stuff from them too!)

Attack and Combat dmg Triggers.

Etrata is unblockable, so why not have some spicey combat damage/attack trigger effects. The ninja subtheme is also nice and synergistic with some of these effects.

Quietus Spike

Bident of Thassa

ETC.

Finding key pieces.

While I am not trying to make this the most consistent and competitive deck (Also the commander is Etrata...), the strategy requires some specific cards to really shine so we need ways to find them.

Artifact Fabricate

Anything Demonic Tutor

Strongly considered cards/card types (more testing required).

Transmute cards like Muddle the Mixture (For finding specific pieces e.g. Strionic Resonator , bounce/flicker/phasing effects, etc.)

Additional Tutors: instant/sorc Mystical Tutor, Any Vampiric Tutor , etc. (Same reason as transmute cards, though transmute has some interesting potential with their normal cast abilities)

Doomsday combo using Thassa's Oracle or to assemble the 2 counter per opponent combo with Blade of Selves , Strionic Resonator , and Mirror Box .

Infinite mana with Isochron Scepter and Dramatic Reversal (Dramatic Reversal not currently in the deck and it really isn't that compelling to win games with such an easy/solved combo)

Ninja stuff Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow (Might be good to have additional support for the ninjas already in the deck and as a piece of card draw/smackdown with her ability)

Fast mana Jeweled Lotus , etc. (Because turn 1 Etrata capabilities)

Turn a commander/Token into a valid Etrata target Reality Shift

Have fun and assassinate some fools. Open to suggestions!

Date added	2 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 40 - 0 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.60
Tokens	Copy Clone, Drone 2/2 C, Dungeon: Undercity, Skeleton 4/1 B, The Initiative, Treasure